[CentOS] slowness with new kernel+nouveau?

[Marko Vojinovic]

On Thursday, 16. August 2012. 16.34.01 Sorin Srbu wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On
> > Behalf Of m.roth at 5-cent.us
> > Sent: den 16 augusti 2012 16:13
> > To: CentOS mailing list
> > Subject: Re: [CentOS] slowness with new kernel+nouveau?
> > 
> > >> I hear rumors that kmod-nvidia will be coming in RHEL soon, and so here
> > >> to CentOS.
> > > 
> > > Any source for the rumors?
> > > 
> > > It'd be great though!
> > 
> > It's in fc17.

No it isn't. As long as nVidia drivers are closed source and proprietary, they 
will never be in Fedora. I wouldn't know about RHEL, though, they might decide 
whatever they want to do. However, some main Nouveau developers are employed 
by RH, so I wouldn't bet on RHEL importing nVidia drivers.

HTH, :-)
Marko